American IPA

Brew #22

Brew Date: 15 Nov. 2009

Ingredients

• 9 lbs ultralight liquid malt extract
• 1.5 lbs Crystal 15°L malt
• 1.5 oz Magnum hops (bittering)
• 2 oz Cascade hops (flavoring)
• 2 oz Cascade hops (aroma)
• 0.5 oz Chinook hops, 12.1% AA (dry hopping)
• 1 tablet Whirfloc clarifying agent
• 2 vials of White Labs California Ale Yeast (WLP001)
  

Procedure 

- Steeped grains in grain bag at 170F - 171F for 30 minutes.

- Brought wort to boil and added malt extract

- Once back at boil added bittering hops

- At 45 minutes added Whirfloc

- At 53 minutes added flavour hops

- At 60 minutes added aroma hops, and turned off flame

- Cooled with wort chiller (NOTE: Stirring wort with wort chiller really reduces cooling time!)

- Pitched yeast at 85F

Gallons in fermenter: 6

OG: n/a

FG:

Fermentation:

11/16  65F  Evidence of foam, which had subsided.

11/18 64F
11/23 64F
11/24  Racked to secondary, dry-hopped with 0.5 oz Chinook (12.1% AA) whole-leaf hops
12/3 Kegged beer.